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Profile your characters like a pro
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Profile your characters like a pro

Profile your characters like a pro Try a slightly different character study. Here are two characters, without talking about how they look, write a short paragraph about what kind of…
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Posted by By Sue Borgersen 2021-11-15Posted inPensivesTags: Character studies, personality traits3 Comments
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Can you Survive the Haunted Horror of the Witches’ Vampire House?

Six prompts to get you writing in the week after Halloween!
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Posted by By John Nixon 2021-11-01Posted inPensivesTags: halloween, horror, writing prompts4 Comments
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Pensive based on a news story – 18 Oct 2021

I heard a piece on the news yesterday and haven't stopped thinking about it. I need to work it out, so it's going here in a Pensive. SEPTA story It…
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Posted by By Kimberly Hirsh 2021-10-19Posted inPensivesTags: crime, social issues, social justice4 Comments
Does Living Abroad Broaden Your Mind
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Does Living Abroad Broaden Your Mind

When I was growing up in Edinburgh, I couldn't imagine wanting to live anywhere else. All my friends were there, my many cousins and I knew the city and felt…
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Posted by By Patricia Cole 2021-10-04Posted inPensives7 Comments
THE AEROPLANE
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THE AEROPLANE

In 1903, the Wright brothers flew around 200 feet at Kittyhawk. In 1909, Blériot crossed the English Channel. By 1918, aircraft played a significant role in combat and the RAF…
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Posted by By Nigel Wild 2021-09-20Posted inPensives3 Comments
A Pensive on Writing Place
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A Pensive on Writing Place

Use the opening passages from these novels to inspire a piece of your own writing. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez starts in a village: Macondo was…
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Posted by By Gail Aldwin 2021-09-06Posted inPensivesTags: novel openings, reading, sense of place, writing prompts5 Comments
MUSES & HEAT & MEET n GREET
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MUSES & HEAT & MEET n GREET

Do you have a muse? Write about her. I say “her”, because the original Greek muses were female. But yours may not be. Write about what form he/she/it takes and…
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Posted by By Debbie Hubbard 2021-08-23Posted inPensivesTags: heat, muses, perspectives3 Comments
Pensive   9 August 2021
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Pensive 9 August 2021

You are a dog whisper. You’ve been that way since childhood. It’s not that you know what they are thinking; you can hear them in your mind, always with individual…
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Posted by By Bruce Louis Dodson 2021-08-09Posted inPensives8 Comments
Poems please
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Poems please

Wouldn’t it be lovely to have a poem pensive? A few ideas for you here: Write an acrostic poem of 9 lines using the word girandole. Each line begins with…
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Posted by By Sue Borgersen 2021-07-25Posted inPensivesTags: acrostic poem, poems, poetry, triversen3 Comments
An Ostentation of Peacocks
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An Ostentation of Peacocks

This post is by Angela Williams. A Founder Member of Pens Around the World, she left us in 2021, to pursue a demanding creative writing course. We wish her well! More about…
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Posted by By Guest Blogger 2021-07-12Posted inPensivesTags: collective nouns, peacocks, writing prompts1 Comment

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